Spirituality: When there are no words, silence heals

5:39 PM,
Mar. 22, 2013

Written by

Norris Burkes
Gannett

If you've experienced a major loss in your life, you've probably had people say to you, "I'm so sorry. I just don't know what to say."

So why is it that they somehow manage to open their mouths anyway?

One day years ago, I was walking past the glass-enclosed surgical waiting room in the Houston hospital where I served as the chaplain. I stopped when my eye caught a surgical nurse with her arm wrapped around the shoulder of a tearful woman. ...